Gilly Gerardis

Experience

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  Xerox Ltd, Global Knowledge and Language Services

  Oct 1997 - May 1998

  Translator

  • Translation and review of IT, legal and marketing material, terminology translation and approval

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  Freelance work

  May 1998 - Apr 2000

  Freelance Translator and Interpreter

  • Translation and transcreation for business partmers)• Conference interpreting (business customers and EU• Marketing content creation and support activities

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  Il lupo & l'agnello editori

  Apr 2000 - Dec 2000

  Project and Team Leader

  • Management of a the internationalisation of a large Italian regional cuisine website site• Recruitment, onboarding and management of in-house and freelance team

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  Bowne Global Solutions

  Jan 2001 - Mar 2004

  Project Manager

  • Management of IT, multimedia, and publishing localisation projects• Management of medical localisation projects and team

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  Organising Committee for the XX Olympic Winter Games

  Jan 2005 - Mar 2006

  • Recruitment, allocation, and coordination of ticketing operations and personnel• Supervision of box office operations • Overall monitoring of several functional areas, cross-functional reporting and reporting to IOC• Preparation of presentations, speeches and other documentation for high-level and official meetings

  • Venue Operations Assistant

    Nov 2005 - Mar 2006

  • Planner

    Jan 2005 - Oct 2005
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  Binari sonori Srl

  Apr 2006 - Oct 2006

  Project Manager / Audio Coordinator

  • Management of multimedia projects, and coordination of in-house and partner studios.

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  Lionbridge

  Dec 2007 - Jul 2010

  Lead Project Manager

  • Management of IT, multimedia and packaging localisation projects, and supervision of a team of 4 project managers for several key accounts (eg Microsoft, Novell)• Economic responsibility, financial forecasting, preparation of RFP documentation, negotiation of vendor ad-hoc rates and discounts

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  Alpha CRC

  Aug 2010 - Nov 2016

  • Responsibility over a team of 10 to 15 Project Managers and overall supervision of production teams (including linguists, engineers, developers, web and marketing agencies) across 3 key accounts (Autodesk IT and Marketing, Wmware)• Supervision of project and team performance, including compliance with budget requirements• Process creation and optimisation, KPI monitoring• Preparation and delivery of training courses, on-site and remote training and coaching • End to end management of one of the customer’s main software releases within a newly-introduced fully outsourced localisation and project management model • Economic responsibility, coordination of project team (including client team), preparation and maintenance of project documentation

  • Programme Manager

    Aug 2011 - Nov 2016

  • Senior Project Manager

    Aug 2010 - Aug 2011
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  Axis Italia Translations e Technical Services

  Aug 2017 - Oct 2017

  Sr Project Manager

  • Customer-facing point of contact for technical translation projects

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  COOPIT Cooperativa Interpreti e Traduttori

  Jan 2019 - Oct 2021

  Sr Project Manager

  • Translation project management, recruitment of translation vendors• File finalisation, including simple DTP and proofreading and/or editing of short translation projects• Event organisation support, event billing and cost tracking, vendor contract maintenance

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  N/A

  Jan 2022 - now

  Language Teacher

  In-company Business English tuition on behalf of:- English For Business Srl- Fondazione Aldini Valeriani